LucidShape is an intelligent 3D CAD system for optical engineers. Bring your exterior lighting products to market ahead of your competitors.
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Synopsys LucidShape 2024.09 Tested Picture
The LucidShape 2024.09 release includes many new features to advance automotive lighting design:
- Creation of Micro Lens Masks: Micro-Lens-Arrays are used in projection systems for icon projection for both, interior and exterior automotive lighting applications. For an optical engineer, the illumination design task is to find a suitable mask geometry to achieve the desired illumination distribution. To alleviate this burden on the user, we have automated the mask computation process.
- New ways to generate small facets using the MacroFocal tools: Design trends are creating lenses with thousands and tens of thousands of facets. The MacroFocal tools have been expanded to make working with these large numbers of facets easier.
- Configure facets using a CSV file. Instead of working with a grid of settings in the LucidShape interface, export your settings to a CSV file that you can edit in a spreadsheet tool, and then import back into LucidShape.
- MacroFocal Reflector and Lens tools expanded to include mini pillows. You can now add micro-facets to each facet of your MacroFocal design.
- Update facets independently. Instead of recalculating hundreds of facets to see a change that only affects one facet, you can now recalculate facet by facet, speeding up your design process.
- New and revised benchmark and regulation tools supporting adaptive driving beam (ADB) design:
- US-NCAP Benchmark Tool
- FMVSS 108 ADB Tool
- Regulation Checker
- C-IASI Benchmark Tool
- C-NCAP Benchmark Tool
- Advanced Analysis improvements:
- Support for bitmap images, allowing you to analyze and compare data from photographs or other renders of a design.
- New preprocessing options include adjusting the UV range, adding a gradient, and automatic headlamp aiming.
- Ability to add an aiming wall
- New measurements for centroids
